Summary
Baker Tilly reviewed 150 of the 1,070 invoices processed by HART in fiscal years 2017 and 2018. Valued at $205,210,198, the invoices in the test population represent 31 percent of the costs HART incurred during that two-year period. AUDITOR’S SUMMARY ACT 1, passed by the Hawai‘i State Legislature during the 2017 First Special ...
Read More Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation: Contract and Vendor Compliance Review Report
AUDITOR’S SUMMARY Eighty funds proposed in 2019 did not meet criteria We reviewed 98 House and Senate bills proposing 80 special and revolving funds during the 2019 legislative session of which none met criteria. ONLY ABOUT HALF OF THE MONEY the State spends each year comes from its main financial account, the general fund. ...
Read More 19-10, Overview of Proposed Special and Revolving Fund Analyses
Should Home Inspectors Be Regulated? We found no evidence that regulation of home inspectors was reasonably necessary to protect consumers. AUDITOR’S SUMMARY DURING THE 2018 LEGISLATIVE SESSION, concern that a number of residential home inspections are conducted by under-qualified inspectors led to the introduction of Senate Bill No. 2403, which proposed licensure and regulation for ...
Read More 19-09, Sunrise Analysis: Regulation of Home Inspectors
Beyond Redemption: After more than a decade, the Department of Health still has not developed procedures to address the Deposit Beverage Container Program’s fundamental flaws. In such a flawed system without controls, there are no incentives for accurate reporting. In fact, inherent to this system are incentives to under-report the number of bottles and cash ...
Read More 19-08, Financial and Program Audit of the Department of Health’s Deposit Beverage Container Program, June 30, 2018